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The spanish teams have been remarkably helped, in the latest years, by a particular Spanish law (known as "Beckham law") that envisaged tax facilitations for Spanish companies employing foreigners ( = non spanish people).
Basically the taxation on foreign employees (including football players) had been reduced from 43% to 24%. You guys can see what this implies: Spanish teams can pay way higher salaries than other European teams, and are therefore much more attractive for football stars.

This was happening until early November, when the Spanish governemnt itself decided to change such law (maintaining it only for "real workers" - pardon me for the term - people with less than 600,000 EUR of yearly salary, therefore excluding most football players).

Just to make an example, the Ibrahimovic transfer would never have happened in a normal regime.

Real Madrid needs to realize that money can't buy everything. Their last good rucn in the Champions League in the late 90s was built around good players and not stacked with superstars. They also need to realize that nourishing youth is just as important.

We at Barca knew that since the days of Van Gaal and his legions of Dutchmen. No one liked the team and he won the liga once and that is about it. Since than the clud has been promoting youth and produced stars within. Look at the Messis, Iniestas, Xavis etc.

you can't dump the coach just couse you had a bad stretch.

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